[Vendidad Sade]
Contributors: Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo, former owner; Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji, former owner; Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji, patron; Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1762
Place of publication: Surat
Language: ave
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Zoroastrianism; Texts; Early works to 1800; Liturgy; Avestan Manuscripts
Other titles: Kurāsāg ud naskīh jud-dēv-dād abāg zand
Work titles: Avesta. Vendidād
Description: Manuscript of the Videvdad Sade written in Avestan with verses in Persian preceeding each chapter. The manuscript has four colophons with largely the same contents: Pahlavi (f. 320r-320v), Persian (f. 321v), Pazand (f. 321v-322r), and Gujarati (f. 322r-322v).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Other manuscripts copied by this scribe include 1 (page 3), 22 (page 34) and 39b (page 54) in J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism In Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1940); manuscripts 127 (page 32) and 234 (page 55) in J.C. Katrak, Oriental Treasures, Being Condensed Tabular Descriptive Statement of over a thousand Manuscripts and of their Colophons (Bombay: 1941); and manuscript 146 (page 168) in E.B.N. Dhabhar, The K.R. Cama Oriental Institute Catalogue (Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1923).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 17 lines per page.

Script: Avestan with new Persian in nastaʻlīq.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; ritual diagram in black and red ink (f. 297r).

Origin: Copy completed in the city of Surat on day Asman (27), month Adar (9) in the year 1131 AY (Anno Yazdegirdi) by Herbed Darab Framroz Minochehr (f. 320r-320v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 320 - FOLIO.

Commissioned by Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji (f. 320r-320v).

Note in Gujarati followed by a translation by A.V.W. Jackson, "'This ms. was given to me by my father Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji in lieu of an honorarium for my undergoing the 'nan' ceremony' (i.e the barashnum ritual)." (second front flyleaf recto).

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In Avestan. Colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati.

Formerly owned by Dastur Kaikhusroo Jamaspasa.

Formerly owned by Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji (note in Gujarati, second flyleaf recto at front of book).

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